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Has itg wasn’t in the Red Sea, it wasn’t anywheres near the Gulf of Suez or Arabia. The name implies a swamp, not an ocean. If it was important to know exactly, Humash would have included GPS coordinates.

I am impressed the moderators had the linguistic skills to approve the posting. It’s been many years since the secular departments of American yeshivot taught Latin (which they did, back when it was a required subject for college admission).

If forced to fight to survive, haredim would, but there are usually alternatives. At the time there were really no Torah centers outside of Israel (those wanting to learn Torah in Bavel and Egypt turned to Israel, and political conditions in Egypt and Bavel were problematic anyways). Under current conditions, hareidim would flee Eretz Yisrael rather than go to war with the hilonim.

Remember that at the time of the Hashmonaiim, the problem was primarily with the secular Jews who when defeated called in their Greek sponsors -this could happen again. However one has to remember that the other two regional powers at the time, Egypt (also Greek, but not friends with the Greeks based in Syria) and Rome (growing but not yet trying to conquer the eastern Mediterranean) supported Israeli independence as a way of weakening the Greek regime in Syria. Because the Arabs are scared of Israel, Israel isn’t likely to be buffer state in their eyes (though that explains most western support Israel – as a way of keeping the Arabs disrupted).

Vaccines often hurt at the site of the vaccination. That’s normal. Anything more is a (very unusual) bad reaction.

1. Its actually a very broad number of countries if you base it on how they vote at the UN. If instead you look at whether these countries trade with Israel, the number shrinks significantly. For many countries, it is normal to condem Israel and then to buy Israeli goods. Indeed, many countries both denounce Israel at the UN, and buy Israeli produced weapons. An example of the “bark” being worse than the “bite”?

2. In many countries, the major products we import are produced by the local Jewish community for the kosher market so it wouldn’t accomplish much to boycott these products. The fact that a product has a kosher certification is probably much more important than the politics of the government of the country of production (and if the product doesn’t have a hecksher, why buy it to begin with).

The “custom” began when Jews started coming in contact with Christians whose minhag was to give gifts for their winter holiday (details vary among countries – the custom goes back to the Roman holiday of “Saturnalia”, which is the origin of the holiday the goyim observe in December). A good argument can be made that giving presents at this time is clearly avodah zarah, since gift giving has always been part of the avodah of their holiday.

The “Hanukah gelt” custom involved giving a few coins to be deposited in a pushka.

The Israeli left-wingers are fanatic zionists in the original meaning of the word (non-zionists lefties leave Eretz Yisrael as soon as they can). As good zionists they want Israel to be a normal state, which do someone whose focus is Europe, means there is a national religion in which everyone is a nominal members (note that piety isn’t a factor, this is a matter of patriotism). While they can tolerate a few non-Jews who are members of other religions, they want all non-Palestinian Israelis to be Jewish. Thus is someone wishes to be a good zionist, i.e. a patriotic Israeli, that is good enough for them to be Jewish. Their model would be the historic desire of many immigrants to join the established church, not out of a theological belief, but out of the desire to be normal. That’s good enough for them To the leftists, all the “Torah” stuff went out when Herzl and Ben Gurion replaced Avraham Aveinu and Moshe Reabbeinu, and they object to tying geirus to ideas that most Israelis have long rejected.

A frum gym might be a good business oportunity. Remember most gyms are for-profit businesses. It could have separate hours for men and women (with separate staffs). While a JCC/YMHA might have separate hours, they really could do no more and the building would stay un-frum.

Both parties agree that if you got rid of the other, the country would be much better off.

If both parties move to extremes, a third party would develop, but that isn’t likely since the American system is rigged to elect middle of the road (which is why an election between Elizabeth Warren and Rand Paul is highly unlikely).

Employment is a good thing. Not all that easy to come by. Assuming one’s father isn’t setting up the propsective spouse in a business, employment is the next best thing. It turns out that those who are employed tend to stay that way, and those that are unemployed have a problem.

The mailing it to yourself works for copyright, not patent. For patent you need to file with the Patent Office, which then has to agree it is indeed an invention. This gets tricky which is why one tends to use professionals to help.

“Without the yishuv, Hitler would have killed Judaism.”

Actually, it should say “without the Americans”, Hitler would have killed Judaism (okay, the Brits and the Russians deserve some credit to). While one can (and should) perceive the Allied efforts to defeat Hitler as an example of Hashgacha Pratis, the yishuv did not play a significant role. Indeed, the efforts of the zionists were a major factor, and perhaps the only factor, explaining why the British were anxious to keep Jewish refugees out of Palestine, and in fact, out of any other other place, and one can argue that it was due to the zionists that the expulsion of European Jews (which was Germany’s original plan) became the genocide of European Jews.

Diseases such as Ebola, and quarantines, were quite common until about 50 years ago. All they have to do is dust off their old laws and go back to the procedures then used – which included quarantines of travellers from affected countries. Given the way the world’s economy is connected, anything other than a short term travel ban would disrupt the economy which is why no one is discussing it. Fortuantely ebola isn’t very contagious (unlike influenze or smallpox), and while it is more contagious than AIDS (HIV) it still isn’t a big threat to places with functional public health systems (which includes most of Africa, except for a few countries that destroyed their public health system recently with messy civil wars).

1. The continued existence of Israel is still in debate and its continued existence is up in the air. On multiple occasions, the American rescued the Israelis (in 1948 by forcing the British not to re-occupy Palestine which was clearly their plan, again in 1967 and 1973 where but for the Americans the Soviet Union would have intervened). Given America’s increasingly isolationist policies, such help might not be forthcoming in the future. Given that most of the world regards the zionists as crimials for stealing Eretz Yisrael from the Muslims (note that the zionists reject the idea that G-d gave us any rights there), Israel is facing a permanent threat to its existence.

2. The State has caused tremendous damage to the Torah world by encouraging (some would say by coercing) people to give up a Torah lifestyle and become secular. This has been by design. If you hold that Torah, not political control of Eretz Yisrael, is the key to Jewish survival, Zionism is a fiasco.

3. Before the zionists, Jews lived at peace with the Muslims (okay, it was sort of like being African American in the USA before World War II, but it was peace and the Muslims never objected to Torah), and the zionist decision to go to war with a group that includes about a billion people means we have acquired a enemy who can do very serious harm to us. If the price of defeating the Muslims is to give up Torah, which is what the Israelis claim, it is too high a price.

Acording to contemporary accounts, the Hevron massacre was planned with the knowledge and approval of the government (then part of British Empire). They were trying to get a war going between the Jews and Arabs, which is why they targeted the non-zionist community in Hevron (much easier to start a war if the Jews were led by zionists). Unless the Jews had sufficient military force to defeat the British Empire, more Jews armed men wouldn’t have helped.What might have helped was if there was a Hareidi-Arab alliance, but that fell apart after the zionists (which British help) assasinated Jacob Israel De Haan in 1924.

Unless it is accompanied by the Palestinians giving claims on Israel within the 1949-1967 boundaries, an internationally recognized Palestinian state would be claim the whole of the former British mandate, and thereby setting up the possibility of the United Nations calling for an international peacekeepking force to remove the zionists from Eretz Yisrael, etc. Given the weakness of the zionist claim (remember they reject Torah, and base their claims solely on international law and a United Nations resolution no one ever took seriously), an internationally recognized Palestinian state would seriously undermine Israel. Outside the United States (that is to say, outside the Republicans and Jewish Democrats), there is little support for Israel outside the Jewish community and in most countries the Israelis are seen as thieves who stole Eretz Yisrael from the goyim (Rashi addresses this is his famous opening of his commentary on Humash, but the Israelis reject the idea of a Torah basis for their enterprise since the whole idea of zionism was a secular western state – even though the secular west things the zionists are fools at best and criminals at worst).

I assume you mean you want to learn in peace and not be an activist opposing the medinah and that you are not ineligible for military service for some other reason. There are many fine yeshiovos in countries not controlled by zionists. If you are a hareidi opposed to military service, living in Eretz Yisrael is like being on the front lines in a war, and while there is much zechus for a soldier to be “kravi” (as the zionists say, in their war with the goyim), if you want to learn in peace it is best to be “jobnik” (as the zionists refer to those who want to be in the army but not do anything that might get them shot at) by learning elsewhere.

If an “alternative” method worked, it would be adopted by mainstream medicine. The fact the “big medicine” rejects something that could use to justify charging you big fees suggests that these new treatments are to be looked at skeptically.

Though if an alternative is “free”, the establishment tends to ignore it. For example, Type 2 Diabetes can be prevented or cured by loss of weight (to the point the person is no longer overweight) and by significant exercise. Exercise and refraining from eating do not generate fees, making this an “alternative” to establish medicine. So in cases where the alternative involves little or no expense, it might be valid even though the medical establishment doesn’t embrace it.

Most people pronounce it “Hip-Pa” regardless of its official name or actual acronym.

They usually get recycled, as some other animal’s dinner.

“retarded” itself is merely a polite way replacing more insulting terms used previously

The Polite terms in contemporary English involving combing the words “Mental” or “Intellectual” with “Handicapped” or increasingly “Disabled.”

“Developmental.. ” refers to when the problem started, meaning it started from birth (as opposed to having resulted later in life (such as from disease or injury)

Bnei Torah prefer polite speech, but there is nothing wrong with an Am ha-Aretz using the word “retarded” since everyone knows such persons are intellectually challenged which due to poor training results in vulgarity, and will forgive them.

DaasYochid: In nature difference species do not crossbreed, but the ability to genetically modify organizations raises interesting questions (e.g. a cow that has been modified to produce human milk). Some of the debate over GMO’s is about situations where genes from different animal or plant species are combined in “unnatural” ways (typically to produce healthier food or to facilitate raising them). Is it permitted for Jews to do the cross-breeding, and is it permitted to benefit from (i.e. eat) the results.

DaasYochid: Women tend to be healthier and live longer than men (the only reason this wasn’t a factor in the past was due to high maternal mortality, which Baruch ha-Shem, is history). That comfortably explain the statistic you consulted. The gap is much smaller if limited to newborns.

How would a crisis be possible?

Are men suddenly less likely to marry than women (e.g. off the derech, decided to be lifelong bachelors, killed off in a war, etc.)? The answer is “no.”

Has the marriage age for men gone up? Probably, especially due to the economic conditions in recent years. Most men (and women) want a parnassah before they start raising a family. The “crisis” seems to be more among Baal ha-battim, than people planning on being impoverished kollel families, i.e. among those most likely to be affected by a strained economy (kollel families expect to be dirt poor, and the expectations are easy to meet).

Among most Americans, there is usually a significant gap in marriage age, with men often being five to ten years older – this is normal since men gain the ability to support a family much later than women are able to produce babies. In the old days, when most women could expect to eventually die in childbirth, and few babies survived to adulthood, a delay in starting a family was serious, but with modern medicine this isn’t a problem.

So relax, and the problem will go away as the men who were reaching adulthood when the economy crashed get established and get married.

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1. The original ten tribes weren’t all that lost (and most survivors probably joined up with exiles from the other tribes a few years later).

2. Most of the “lost Jews” people keep discovering are from the mainstream tribes who didn’t start getting misplaced until the end of the Bayis Sheini period.

3. People like discovering interesting and lost lost relations.

4. Many Jews have a legitimate fear of getting lost, so its nice to hear about finding some who were lost and now are found.